Enterprise Architecture for Leadership

Name: ArchConf
Start: 2026-12-07T08:00-0500
End: 2026-12-10T14:30-0500
Location: Opal Sands Resort

Raju Gandhi

FOUNDER, DEFMACRO SOFTWARE

01 / ABOUT THIS SESSION

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has long been misunderstood as a bottleneck to innovation, often labeled the “department of no.” But in today’s fast-paced world of Agile, DevOps, Cloud, and AI, does EA still have a role to play—or is it a relic of the past?

This session will highlight the need for Enterprise Architecture in the modern enterprise. It will show how EA can help provide line-of-sight from business to IT assets and management. Leaders will learn how to build out a future-proof version of EA that thrives in the modern landscape.

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02 / SESSION DETAILS

FORMAT

90-minute session

03 / MORE FROM RAJU GANDHI

01 Avoiding the Traps: Anti-Patterns in Modern Software Architecture → 02 Documenting your architecture → 03 Exploring Architecture Patterns for Modern Systems → 04 Mastering Software Architecture Patterns and Antipatterns → 05 Measuring your architecture → 06 The Role of Enterprise Architecture in an ever-changing landscape →

YOUR SPEAKER

Raju Gandhi

FOUNDER, DEFMACRO SOFTWARE

Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.

He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.

He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).

Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.

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DECEMBER 7 - 10, 2026 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL